From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 29 16: 8:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C981E37B407 for ; Sat, 29 Sep 2001 16:06:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-a085.otenet.gr [212.205.215.85]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.11.5/8.11.5) with ESMTP id f8TN6pR22962; Sun, 30 Sep 2001 02:06:52 +0300 (EEST) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.11.6/8.11.6) id f8TN6ni78801; Sun, 30 Sep 2001 02:06:50 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from charon) From: Giorgos Keramidas MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15286.21494.280359.189586@hades.hell.gr> Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 02:06:30 +0300 To: Jason Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: I was rooted using telnet In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: VM 6.96 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jason writes: > Hello: > > A couple of days ago I was rooted by someone using a telnet exploit. I > have been cvsup'ing my sources regularly and was using 4.4-RC at the > time. I've since moved to 4.4-STABLE. A couple of days ago was a few days *after* 4.4-RELEASE. And a bunch of days after the security warning was posted on freebsd-security. You should really keep a closer eye to the postings of the security officer. - giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message